Preview a site before publishing

- [Instructor] It's a good idea to go through and preview…your site before publishing it live on the internet.…This way you can work out any kinks,…make appropriate changes,…and test to make sure your site and content…will be readable on a desktop, tablet, or mobile device.…The easiest method is to go to the home page, preview it,…and then click through the links on each page.…To preview it, click the eye icon…on the top center of the page.…It's going to launch the page…as it will look to a visitor in the browser.…

You can even test this on multiple browsers,…such as Safari, Internet Explorer,…and Google Chrome to note any differences…and how it looks through each browser.…On each page, on the bottom right-hand side of the screen,…toggle through each choice of previewing it.…For example, how it looks on a desktop large screen,…on a tablet, and finally on a mobile phone.…You can scroll through, see that you can read it.…Test to make sure the menus come up.…

And then move on to the next page.…I'm going to move to my About Us page.…

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8/25/2017

Learn how to create and share webpages with Google Sites, the free tool that comes bundled with your Google account. In this course, staff author Jess Stratton helps you get started with Google Sites by demonstrating how to create sites from scratch using this powerful tool. She familiarizes you with the interface, and shows how to manage your site and add collaborators. Jess also takes you through how to add content—from working with text and links, to embedding YouTube videos and maps from Google Maps. Plus, she discusses how to change your site's URL, and work with privacy settings to make your site as public or private as you'd like.